Did the IJA ever win an equal strength (or nearly) battle?

[plloyd1010]

That kind of depends on how you define "battle". On the PG scale, yes. If you go much bigger, uhh.... no. There are several regimental sized actions on the north coast of New Guinea and during the Solomon Campaign where the Japanese did quite well. However, if you talk about the battles for (let's say) Buna or Bougainville, no, they lost.